Summary
Load testing is an important long-term function that is used to assist management in understanding the behavior of their systems. Of particular importance is the inflection point, where the relationship between applied load and system response shifts from being linear to nonlinear. It can be used in setting operations alerts and parameters as well as in anticipating future problems caused by lack of resources. Load testing can also be used to help build models, as discussed in Chapter 12.
Load testing on the Web has some characteristics that are quite different from load testing in pre-Web, transaction-oriented systems.
The first key difference is the appearance of flash load. This occurs because external users connecting from the public ...
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